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N. Idaho man has cribbage market pegged

Taryn Thompson Hagadone News Network | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 6 months AGO
by Taryn Thompson Hagadone News Network
| June 22, 2014 7:00 AM

ATHOL — Even with the farthest stretch of his imagination, David Oakes never could have envisioned he would be making cribbage boards for a living.

Or that he would be doing it from a home workshop in the woods near Athol — seemingly a world away from his native England.

Together with his wife, Marty, Oakes has found a niche with handcrafted cribbage boards, selling more than 2,200 boards to customers worldwide in the four years since launching his business, “The Cribbage Guy.”

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